On 02/17/2012 11:46 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> On 17 February 2012 16:43, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/17/2012 11:29 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:22 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> The purpose being to only have a single statement to set up the
>>>> trigger rather than setting up a separate trigger function which will
>>>> unlikely be re-used by other triggers... or is this of dubious
>>>> benefit?
>>> +1, though I imagine it would just give it a generated name and save it
>>> anyway, eh?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Before we rush into this, let's consider all the wrinkles. For example, what
>> if you need to change the function? And how would you edit the function in
>> psql? It might be a bit more involved that it seems at first glance,
>> although my initial reaction was the same as David's.
> Why not just...
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER my_trigger...
>
Maybe that would do it. You might also want a \e command for psql to
match it.
cheers
andrew